be more...pbs! [bell rings] [bird chirping] >> appraiser: so, two girls, and you've brought one of the ugliest muskets i've ever seen at the antiques roadshow. why have you brought it? >> woman #1: well, we kind of ransacked our mum's house and we were looking for the oldest most interesting item that she had, and we found this. >> woman #2: girls like guns too, especially big ones. >> appraiser: it's a napoleonic musket. so we're looking at late 17, early 1800s. might have been fired at waterloo. if i think about it, it might have been fired at our troops at waterloo. it was originally a flint lock. now, that means this hammer is a replacement. it had a little piece of flint in it, a frisson here. flint would hit the frisson, spark would make it work. very slow to load. very clumsy. everything goes down from this end. it's then rammed down from this end. put that back. >> woman #2: i wondered what that was for. >> appraiser: that's the ram rod. if you don't put it back the gun won't be able to load